Suggestion: DU needs a "Do Something" sub-forum for this issue?

[Benbow]

Moderated, of course, to take out all the red herring "do somethings" that would be posted by Republicans. Similar to the Do Something section on Michael Moore's site.

During 1992, I helped to run a 12-nation pressure group (that did, within about 18 months, attain its goals). The sheer numbers of DU supporters - and their desire to move forward, to take the chance afforded by the Guckert/Gannon media manipulation scandal - can be an agent of change, if they act in a coordinated way. At the moment, unless I have missed something, it seems that individual people's suggestions for action are posted in separate threads which then get pushed down the list by new threads and/or swamped/diluted by other messages.

One of the most effective things that our pressure group did was a "fax storm" on a certain media outlet. People all over Europe were given a list of fax numbers to send their message to, and then they did, memorably. I don't think it is illegal ... :-) It is not exactly a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. :-)